Their advice was divided into seven subject areas: the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), the restart of Japan\u2019s reactors, organizational Issues, human resources, the safety-security interface, seismic and tsunami risk, and radiation doses for workers.<\/p>\n
As for decommissioning at Fukushima Daiichi, the two advisors praised the effort in general, commenting that they were \u201cvery impressed with the very significant progress that has been made at the site since our visit two years ago.\u201d They went on to say, \u201cThe successful removal of the used fuel from Unit 4 was a major accomplishment, and significant progress has been made in stabilizing the site.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, the advisors described their view that the management of contaminated water was \u201cstill a serious issue,\u201d adding that \u201cwater that meets release criteria should be released instead of continuing to be accumulated at the site.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Moreover, recognizing that the NRA has been engaged in examinations for restarting the country\u2019s NPPs making \u201ca careful and thorough effort to assure adequate safety,\u201d they also said that nuclear operators are likely to face various issues \u2014 given the prolonged period of operational suspension \u2014 including the need to retrain reactor operators, and reduced reactor output because of repairs and other matters.<\/p>\n Speaking about the NRA\u2019s organizational positioning and human resources, the advisers said that sufficient consideration should be given to possible confusion stemming from a transfer of jurisdiction to the Cabinet Office \u2014 a change that could occur after a mandatory review at the three-year point, provided for in the act that established the NRA. They also emphasized the importance of maintaining independence. <\/p>\n In terms of improving incentives to enable the NRA to hire highly qualified staff, they noted that a \u201cno-return\u201d rule is an impediment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their advice was divided into seven subject areas: the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), the restart of Japan\u2019s reactors, organizational Issues, human resources, the safety-security interface, seismic and tsunami risk, and radiation doses for workers. As for decommissioning at Fukushima Daiichi, the two advisors praised the effort in general, commenting that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,8,7],"tags":[48,21,81,80,19,18],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fukushima","category-news","category-policies","category-regulation-safety","tag-contaminated-water","tag-fukushima-daiichi","tag-lacoste","tag-meserve","tag-nra","tag-restart"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}